Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

How many golden hens are maintained by the Sister of the Sun?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sister · What happens: maintain · To what, where: many golden hens

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hens	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hens	amod
4	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 maintained	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 maintained	aux:pass
6	maintained	maintain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Sister	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sister	det
9	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maintained	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sun	det
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sister	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 maintained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	maintain	present · passive	the Sister of the Sun	many golden hens					vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

thirty-three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 thirty	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

fifteen in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 total	case
3	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fifteen	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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